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Standard pool balls are 57.15 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in), are used in many pool games found throughout the world, come in sets of two suits of object balls, seven solids and seven stripes, an 8 ball and a cue ball; the balls are racked differently for different games (some of which do not use the entire ball set).
When a sliding cue ball contacts an object ball dead-on (a center-to-center hit), the cue ball and object ball are of the same mass, and neither follow nor draw is on the cue ball at the moment of impact, the cue ball will transfer all of its momentum to the object ball and come to a complete stop; this is a stop shot. If the sliding cue ball ...
Three-cushion billiards is a difficult game. Averaging one point per inning is usually national-level play, and averaging 1.5 or more is world-class play. An average of 1 means that for every turn at the table, a player point success rate is 50%. An average of 2 means a success rate of roughly 67%. Result sheet of Jérémy Bury's run of 24
The international standard for carom billiard tables is a playing surface (measured from rail cushion to rail cushion) of 2.84 by 1.42 m (112 by 56 in, or 9.32 by 4.66 ft), +/- 5 mm, though many (especially American) tables for amateur use are 10 x 5 ft (3 by 1.5 m). The slate beds of profession-grade carom tables are usually heated to stave ...
Cue Club, is a sports simulation video game series developed by Bulldog Interactive. The games in the series focus on delivering a realistic interpretation of pool and snooker. The original title was released on Microsoft Windows on 10 November 2000, with a sequel entitled Cue Club 2 arriving on 4 July 2014, on the same platform. The first game ...
Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case of nine-ball) for women also at the World Games 2001 in Akita.
QLab 4 controls lighting devices with the industry standard DMX512 protocol, using commercially available USB-DMX adapters or networked systems via Art-Net. [8] This version also integrates features from QCart, a previously separate program for non-linear show control and advanced programming. [9] [2]: 3–11 QLab 5 was released in 2022.
Historic print depicting Michael Phelan's billiard saloon in New York City, 1 January 1859.. The etymology of "pool" is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that "pool" and other games with collective stakes is derived from the French poule (literally translated "hen"), in which the poule is the collected prize, originating from jeu de la poule, a game that is thought to have ...